Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 57 61
Rank change year-on-year -58 +4 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,462 1,895 3,667
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.61% 4.35% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 4.67% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,017 1,061 2,763
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,688 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,307 40,602 82,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.25% 93.30% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,652 22,587 59,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,450 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,446 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -55 1,332 £75,000 - 537
London +4 708 £86,750 +2.06% 237
UK excluding London -122 632 £67,500 -3.57% 350
Work from Home -38 628 £70,000 -2.77% 294
North of England -59 292 £69,310 -4.07% 122
North West -67 145 £70,000 -3.45% 74
South East -100 139 £71,250 +5.56% 102
Yorkshire -47 95 £69,310 -7.43% 26
South West -85 62 £52,500 -23.39% 39
Midlands -112 58 £67,500 +4.65% 44
North East -6 52 £65,000 +23.81% 22
East of England -17 41 £60,100 +4.52% 21
West Midlands -78 36 £75,000 +7.14% 21
Scotland -82 32 £65,000 -15.91% 13
East Midlands -67 21 £67,250 +7.60% 23
Wales -36 9 £53,171 +2.25% 8
Northern Ireland -29 7 £62,500 +13.64% 5
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £35,000 - 1

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.23%) Confluence
3 17 (1.16%) Apache
4 15 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.96%) IIS
6 13 (0.89%) CMS
6 13 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 12 (0.82%) JBoss
8 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.41%) WordPress
10 5 (0.34%) Drupal
11 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.27%) Appian
11 4 (0.27%) Camunda
11 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.21%) Liferay
12 3 (0.21%) nginx
12 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 13 (0.89%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.48%) Maya
4 6 (0.41%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.21%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.068%) Actimize
6 1 (0.068%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.068%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.068%) Quorum
6 1 (0.068%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.068%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.068%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 783 (53.56%) AWS
2 600 (41.04%) Azure
3 303 (20.73%) GCP
4 243 (16.62%) Serverless
5 155 (10.60%) SaaS
6 123 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (8.21%) GitHub
8 115 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (7.11%) Amazon S3
10 83 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
10 83 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 73 (4.99%) Amazon SQS
12 68 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
13 60 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
14 57 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
15 47 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 45 (3.08%) Azure AKS
16 45 (3.08%) Datadog
17 41 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
17 41 (2.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.10%) Broadband
2 16 (1.09%) Network Security
3 12 (0.82%) HTTP
4 9 (0.62%) DNS
5 7 (0.48%) Firewall
5 7 (0.48%) Internet
5 7 (0.48%) MQTT
5 7 (0.48%) VPN
6 6 (0.41%) AMQP
6 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.34%) DHCP
7 5 (0.34%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.27%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.27%) LTE
8 4 (0.27%) SNMP
8 4 (0.27%) WAN
9 3 (0.21%) Modbus
9 3 (0.21%) RFID
10 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (13.06%) NoSQL
2 173 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
3 170 (11.63%) MongoDB
4 93 (6.36%) SQL Server
5 82 (5.61%) MySQL
6 73 (4.99%) Relational Database
7 62 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (4.04%) DynamoDB
9 39 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
10 38 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (2.46%) Redis
12 35 (2.39%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.98%) Big Data
14 23 (1.57%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.09%) Pinecone
16 14 (0.96%) Power BI
17 12 (0.82%) DB2
18 10 (0.68%) Data Lake
19 8 (0.55%) Tableau
20 7 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 190 (13.00%) Git
2 130 (8.89%) GitLab
3 126 (8.62%) Jenkins
4 49 (3.35%) JIRA
4 49 (3.35%) TeamCity
5 36 (2.46%) Cucumber
6 33 (2.26%) CircleCI
7 32 (2.19%) Cypress.io
8 31 (2.12%) JUnit
9 20 (1.37%) Claude Code
9 20 (1.37%) Maven
9 20 (1.37%) Mockito
10 19 (1.30%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.23%) Selenium
12 17 (1.16%) SonarQube
12 17 (1.16%) Vite
13 9 (0.62%) JMeter
14 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.48%) NUnit
15 7 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
General
1 421 (28.80%) Finance
2 317 (21.68%) Social Skills
3 154 (10.53%) Banking
4 110 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.50%) Law
6 93 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (4.72%) Retail
8 66 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (3.21%) Financial Institution
10 43 (2.94%) Telecoms
11 38 (2.60%) Back Office
12 23 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.30%) Billing
14 18 (1.23%) Advertising
14 18 (1.23%) Legal
15 15 (1.03%) Games
15 15 (1.03%) Marketing
16 13 (0.89%) Front Office
17 12 (0.82%) Aerospace
18 10 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 506 (34.61%) Developer
2 389 (26.61%) Senior
3 278 (19.02%) Software Engineer
4 213 (14.57%) Architect
5 187 (12.79%) Lead
6 125 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 120 (8.21%) Senior Developer
8 119 (8.14%) Java Developer
9 100 (6.84%) Java Engineer
10 98 (6.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 90 (6.16%) .NET Developer
12 89 (6.09%) Solutions Architect
13 61 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 55 (3.76%) Software Developer
15 54 (3.69%) Lead Developer
16 51 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
17 48 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
18 44 (3.01%) Java Software Engineer
18 44 (3.01%) Senior Java Engineer
19 43 (2.94%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (22.23%) React
2 310 (21.20%) .NET
3 277 (18.95%) RESTful
4 251 (17.17%) Node.js
5 228 (15.60%) Spring
6 220 (15.05%) REST
7 208 (14.23%) Spring Boot
8 183 (12.52%) Kafka
9 119 (8.14%) AngularJS
10 99 (6.77%) .NET Core
11 91 (6.22%) gRPC
12 87 (5.95%) HTML
13 81 (5.54%) ASP.NET
14 80 (5.47%) Vue
15 78 (5.34%) CSS
16 68 (4.65%) .NET Framework
17 65 (4.45%) RabbitMQ
18 54 (3.69%) ASP.NET Core
18 54 (3.69%) OAuth
19 52 (3.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 419 (28.66%) Cloud Native
2 251 (17.17%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 86 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
5 58 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
6 46 (3.15%) Video\Live Streaming
7 45 (3.08%) Over-the-Top Content
8 39 (2.67%) Algorithms
9 37 (2.53%) Data Structures
10 30 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
11 26 (1.78%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.64%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.50%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
15 19 (1.30%) Virtual Team
16 17 (1.16%) Web3
17 16 (1.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 77 (5.27%) Linux
2 42 (2.87%) Windows
3 20 (1.37%) Unix
4 14 (0.96%) Android
5 7 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.27%) CentOS
6 4 (0.27%) Debian
6 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.068%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (49.11%) CI/CD
2 584 (39.95%) Agile
3 549 (37.55%) DevOps
4 532 (36.39%) Software Engineering
5 391 (26.74%) Containerisation
6 357 (24.42%) Full-Stack Development
7 321 (21.96%) Mentoring
8 291 (19.90%) Event-Driven
9 290 (19.84%) Test Automation
10 285 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
11 284 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 277 (18.95%) AI
13 246 (16.83%) Infrastructure as Code
14 185 (12.65%) Scrum
15 182 (12.45%) Computer Science
16 174 (11.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 163 (11.15%) Technical Leadership
18 162 (11.08%) Coaching
19 160 (10.94%) Clean Code
20 155 (10.60%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 473 (32.35%) Java
2 402 (27.50%) Python
3 313 (21.41%) SQL
4 295 (20.18%) JavaScript
5 280 (19.15%) C#
6 238 (16.28%) TypeScript
7 133 (9.10%) Go
8 50 (3.42%) Scala
9 48 (3.28%) C++
9 48 (3.28%) PHP
10 38 (2.60%) Bash
11 32 (2.19%) C
12 31 (2.12%) Ruby
13 21 (1.44%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.30%) Rust
15 18 (1.23%) Kotlin
15 18 (1.23%) PowerShell
16 16 (1.09%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.82%) Groovy
18 9 (0.62%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 187 (12.79%) Degree
2 148 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 105 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 95 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 56 (3.83%) AWS Certification
6 31 (2.12%) Azure Certification
7 29 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.64%) CISSP
9 24 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (0.89%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.82%) CISM
13 8 (0.55%) PhD
14 7 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.41%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.34%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (6.91%) QA
2 35 (2.39%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.98%) GDPR
4 27 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.71%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.50%) NIST
7 16 (1.09%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.68%) NCSC
10 9 (0.62%) GRC
10 9 (0.62%) WCAG
11 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.41%) IFRS
13 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.27%) SLA
15 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.14%) SEPA
17 1 (0.068%) EMIR
System Software
1 440 (30.10%) Docker
2 13 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.068%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 461 (31.53%) Kubernetes
2 268 (18.33%) Terraform
3 82 (5.61%) Ansible
4 78 (5.34%) Grafana
5 44 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.05%) Argo
7 19 (1.30%) Kibana
8 18 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.68%) Puppet
10 9 (0.62%) HP Fortify
11 7 (0.48%) Cilium
12 4 (0.27%) Istio
12 4 (0.27%) Packer
12 4 (0.27%) Rancher
13 3 (0.21%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) MIIS
14 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 146 (9.99%) Microsoft
2 63 (4.31%) Google
3 47 (3.21%) Oracle
4 45 (3.08%) Typelevel
5 25 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.03%) AppDynamics
7 15 (1.03%) IBM
8 14 (0.96%) Red Hat
9 12 (0.82%) Splunk
10 11 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 11 (0.75%) SAP
11 10 (0.68%) Cisco
12 9 (0.62%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.55%) Adobe
13 8 (0.55%) Guidewire
14 7 (0.48%) Databricks
15 6 (0.41%) Okta
15 6 (0.41%) Palo Alto